Riyaz al-salatin 112.3
The Riyazu-s-salatin (Abdus Salam) 112.3
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112.3.1
To the advice of that wise sage, That light-hearted man (Siraju-d-daulah) was deaf. When next day, Siraju-d-daulah reached Daudpur, tidings came to the effect that the English had set fire to Katwah. At that time Mohanlal reproached Siraju-d-daulah, and said: "You have ruined me, and rendered my children orphans. If you had not removed Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan and Dullab Ram from the Katwah outpost, things would not have taken this turn." In short, on the morning following that day, which was 5th Shawal of the 3rd year of the reign of Emperor Alamgir II, the English army from Palasi (Plassey) on one side, and Siraju-d-daulah from Daudpur on the other encountered each other, and opened the battle with a cannonade. Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan, with his detachment, stood at a distance towards the left from the main army; and although Siraju-d-daulah summoned him to his side, Mir Jafar did not move from his position. In the thick of the fighting, and in the heat of the work of carnage, whilst victory and triumph were visible on the side of the army of Siraju-d-daulah, all of a sudden Mir Madan, commander of the Artillery, fell on being hit with a cannon-ball. At the sight of this, the aspect of Siraju-d-daulah's army changed, and the artillerymen with the corpse of Mir Madan moved into tents. It was now midday, when the people of the tents fled.
112.3.2
As yet Nawab Siraju-d-daulah was busy fighting and slaughtering, when the camp-followers decamping from Daudpur went the other side, and gradually the soldiers also took to their heels. Two hours before sun-set, flight occurred in Siraju-d-daulah's army, and Siraju-d-daulah also being unable to stand his ground any longer fled. On arrival at Mansurganj, which had been founded by him, he opened the Treasury gates and distributed money to the army. But owing to grave anxieties, being unable to halt there, the Nawab abandoning his treasures and effects, at nightfall, with his wives and children, got into a boat, carrying with himself a lot of precious jewelleries and gold coins, and sailed towards Purniah and Azimabad. After Siraju-d-daulah's defeat, Mir Muhammad Jafar entered his camp, in the night held a conference with the English Chiefs, and early next morning marched in pursuit of Siraju-d-daulah, and arrived in Murshidabad. Finding the sky propitious towards his views, Mir Jafar entered the citadel, struck up the music announcing his accession to the masnad of Bengal, issued proclamations of peace and security in the City, and unfurled the standard of subahdari. Mir Jafar then detailed his son-in-law, Mir Muhammad Qasim with a corps to capture Siraju-d-daulah, and quartered the Engish army at Bahniah. But Siraju-d-daulah, travelling in the night, had sailed swiftly from below Maldah, and reached Bahial.
112.3.3
When news reached him that the mouth of Nazirpur was unnavigable and boats could not pass by that way, he was obliged to disembark, and went to the house of Dan Shah Pirzadah, whose house was at that place. Dan Shah who previous to this had suffered some injury at the hands of Siraju-d-daulah, finding the latter in his power, and seeing the times favourable, by giving assurances and consolations, detained Siraju-d-daulah in his house, and ostensibly engaging on preparing food, sent information to Mir Daud Ali Khan, Faujdar of Akbarnagar (Rajmahal), who was brother of Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan. The spies of Daud Ali Khan who were searching for Siraju-d-daulah, fancying it to be a grand victory, swiftly arrived, and capturing Siraju-d-daulah carried him from the house of Dan Shah to Akbarnagar, from whence the spies of Daud Ali Khan and Mir Muhammad Qasim Khan carried him in their company to Murshidabad. Mir Muhammad Jafar Khan threw Siraju-d-daulah into prison that day. On the next day, with the advice of the English Chiefs, and on the importunity and insistance of Jagat Set, he slew him, and suspending the corpse of that victim of oppression to a howdah on an elephant's back, sent it round the City, and then buried it in Khosh Bagh in the Mausoleum of Nawab Mahabat Jang. After some days, Mir Jafar killed also Mirza Mihdi Ali Khan, the younger brother of Siraju-d-daulah, by stretching him on an instrument of torture, and buried his body by the side of his brother's grave.
112.3.4
The Nizamat of Nawab Siraju-d-daulah lasted one year and four months, and he was slain at the end of the month of Shawal 1170 A.H.